The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1887-01-26


supply an account Of the condition of
affairs at the time Of the departure Of
the steamer, by adding on the envelope
containing his communication the fol-
lowing latest news
"Januay 24th, $3.50 a. m. Lava
flow about the same as on the 23rd.
Earthquakes still continue, but have
had no severe shocks since I a. M"
Other Accounts.
The captain and officers of the In
ter-Island Steam Navigation Company,
and letters to Messrs G. Brewer & Co.
bring exciting accounts of damage
done by the earthquakes in the Kau
District.
QUAK1NG AT PAHALA.
Mr.. Daniel Foster, manager of the
Hawaiian Agricultural Company's
plantation at Pahala, in letter to the
above firm says that there was a
corner in earthquakes" there. Opera
tons began about eight O'Clock on
Sunday evening and have been prose
cuted ever since The climax was
reached on Monday night, when shocks
followed each other so closely that the
vibrations were continuous for several
hours.
a GRAND SIGHT.
"The lava stream broke out by noon
this side of Mr.. Jones' ranch (Kahuku),
at or near the place where the flow of
1868 came out. The stream is large
and travelled fast toward the sea. 1t
came within two or three miles Of Mr..
Jones' house, when it ran in an easterly
direction and reached the coast some
two miles west of the 1868 flow. The
view from here is in the night grand in
the extreme"
EFFECTS or THE QUAKING.
Just before the steamer w. G.. Hall
left Punaluu on Monday morning, a
telephone message was received from
Pahala plantation stating that four
houses were shaken down. The re.
servoir had also burst, and new boiler
in the mill was displaced and had the
tubes loosened.
A house was shaken down at Puma
luu. The w. G. Hall, while lying a
mile from. shore, was so shaken by a
submarine disturbance that it was
deemed prudent by Captain Bates to
take her some miles to sea. The
shock put out all the steamers lights.
Most of the Portuguese laborers on
Hilea plantation becoming panic
stricken, packed up their household
goods and came to Honolulu by the
w. G. Hall.
THE EARTH TREMBLING AND THE SKY
BLAZING.
We are permitted to make the fol
lowing extract from a private letter
dated Kaalaiki, January 90, 1857
"Kau has again been Distinguishing
ITSELF Probably before this reaches
you, you will have heard of the earth
quakes and the new flow. The earth
quakes began on Monday morning
(some say before, but if so we did not
notice them), and continued all day
and night and the next day till about
three o'clock, when the lava burst out
on the slope of Mauna Loa, as near as
we can find out, above Kahuku. Then
the shocks got lighter and further
apart. None of them were hard, fol
not an article was stirred from its place
not even a stone off the walls
around us, but almost incessant. We
went to bed Monday night, but the
trembles came, wave after wave, like
distant thunder, with now and then {
harder shock that made the window,
rattle and our hearts quake for fear, il
was coming yet harder. Captain II
was on the hill when the eruption broke
out and saw the columns of smoke e
up, The flow went down within two
miles of Mr.. Jones at Kahuku, blu
has passed on TO the sea. The light a
night is something grand and awful
Last evening there was a brilliant dis
play of light, with lightning and thun
der playing over the flow. 1t is abou
seven miles from us in direct line"
ACCOUNTS BY A WITNESS OF THE FLOW
DR. A. w. Raymond, who with hi
wife arrived from Naalehu by tn
steamer w, G. Hall, was found b
our reporter at the Eagle House las
night, and gave some very interestin
particulars of the shocks and the Law
flow. There was one severe shoe
felt at that place, which threw dow
walls and disturbed household NOV
bles, a vase of flowers being throw
down in the doctors house
Slight damage was reported at Hon
apo plantation by Mr. Center, manage
but he had not had time to ascerta
: the full results. He was about to